Police arrested three men accused of driving around an SMS blaster across downtown Toronto, which allegedly blasted tens of thousands of phones with spammy text messages over several months.
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@zackwhittaker Mobile spam-as-a-service, boldly executed. Good riddance.
technology can be used for good
and technology can be used for bad
and, apparently, based on your link, it can be used for the technological equivalent of genital warts
Presumably, someone's proof of concept.
@zackwhittaker Guess I should reconsider my plan to use an SMS blaster to send ":3" to everyone in town...
to be fair it does cause collateral damage, as well as interfering with existing GSM/LTE comms for once the feds/Communications Ministry *aren't* exaggerating when they warn of interference to vital services, unless spammers correctly configure their kit to correctly route 112/999/911 calls (which is unlikely!)
